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title: Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, “You have unrighteo… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, “You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!” Who acts: Wolf, You. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 99

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Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, “You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!”

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**Who acts:** Wolf, You · **What happens:** stand, exclaim, take, be · **To what, where:** Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:8:99
# text = Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, “You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!”
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	unrighteously	unrighteously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a safe distance | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | unrighteously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | the Wolf *= wolf* |  |  |  | from the Wolf *= wolf* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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